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Domain Shane
What Did 4444444.com and 3333333.com Sell For And Some Other “Alternative” Number Sales
You’ve often heard me talk about the crazy numeric market. There isn’t a day that goes by that some form of a number doesn’t sell for a price that surprises me. I feel like I know the numeric market as well as anyone but in mo...
Discussion
What Did 4444444.com and 3333333.com Sell For And Some Other “Alternative” Number Sales
You’ve often heard me talk about the crazy numeric market. There isn’t a day that goes by that some form of a number doesn’t sell for a price that surprises me. I feel like I know the numeric market as well as anyone but in mo...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 6:33 pm
The Domains
Tech.Co Covers .XYZ: “.Xyz is Staring Down .Com; This is How you Slay the Giant”
Tech.co just posted a article about .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in a story entitled; .Xyz is Staring Down .Com: This is How you Slay the Giant. Here are some of the more interesting quotes from the story by Daniel: “I set out to really d...
Discussion
Tech.Co Covers .XYZ: “.Xyz is Staring Down .Com; This is How you Slay the Giant”
Tech.co just posted a article about .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in a story entitled; .Xyz is Staring Down .Com: This is How you Slay the Giant. Here are some of the more interesting quotes from the story by Daniel: “I set out to really d...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 6:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting: A Domain of One’s Own at University of Mary Washington
Program helps students register their first domain name and create a web presence. When I started college in the mid-1990s, the web was really just getting off the ground. Websites contained lots of silly things, and most of us non-techies designed t...
Discussion
Interesting: A Domain of One’s Own at University of Mary Washington
Program helps students register their first domain name and create a web presence. When I started college in the mid-1990s, the web was really just getting off the ground. Websites contained lots of silly things, and most of us non-techies designed t...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 5:02 pm
The Domains
15 Year Old Geo Domain ParrotCay.com Saved In UDRP Registered 7 Years Before TM: No RDNH
A three panel UDRP decision rejected the complaint of Como Holdings USA, Inc. on the 15 year old domain name ParrotCay.com as well as ParrotCay.co which was registered on the first day of general availability by the owner of the .com, Sybaris LLC The...
Discussion
15 Year Old Geo Domain ParrotCay.com Saved In UDRP Registered 7 Years Before TM: No RDNH
A three panel UDRP decision rejected the complaint of Como Holdings USA, Inc. on the 15 year old domain name ParrotCay.com as well as ParrotCay.co which was registered on the first day of general availability by the owner of the .com, Sybaris LLC The...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
74% of new TLD registrations (SLD+TLD) not registered in .com
Interesting data about what domains are being registered in new top level domain names. Early this year, as new top level domain names started to be released, I noticed something interesting while reviewing which new TLDs were being registered: most ...
Discussion
74% of new TLD registrations (SLD+TLD) not registered in .com
Interesting data about what domains are being registered in new top level domain names. Early this year, as new top level domain names started to be released, I noticed something interesting while reviewing which new TLDs were being registered: most ...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 4:14 pm
The Domains
Verisign Asks What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s Are Not Registered In .Com
Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing ...
Discussion
Verisign Asks What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space? 16% Of New gTLD’s Are Not Registered In .Com
Verisign published a post on its blog yesterday entitled “What’s Really New in the New gTLD Space” which was written by Andy Simpson The piece has some interesting stats and other information that are worth a look in the continuing ...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 3:46 pm
Domain Name News
Ron Jackson Finally Owns DomainNameJournal.com
For more than a decade, Ron Jackson has been producing his domain industry publication DNJournal. It’s been regarded as a “go-to” industry publication for his weekly sales reports and his “cover stories”, featuring...
Discussion
Ron Jackson Finally Owns DomainNameJournal.com
For more than a decade, Ron Jackson has been producing his domain industry publication DNJournal. It’s been regarded as a “go-to” industry publication for his weekly sales reports and his “cover stories”, featuring...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 3:40 pm
The Domains
After Winning 10 Uniform Rapid Suspensions in Dec. Nissan Loses Its 1st on Nissan.technology
Nissan Motors has just lost it first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding after winning ten URS in just December. Richard W. Hill, as Examiner declined to suspend the domain even though the domain holder failed to respond. The opinion is complet...
Discussion
After Winning 10 Uniform Rapid Suspensions in Dec. Nissan Loses Its 1st on Nissan.technology
Nissan Motors has just lost it first Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding after winning ten URS in just December. Richard W. Hill, as Examiner declined to suspend the domain even though the domain holder failed to respond. The opinion is complet...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 2:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
NamesCon registrations top 600
Next month’s domain name conference in Las Vegas will be a big event. Registrations for next month’s NamesCon domain name conference have topped 600, conference founder Richard Lau informed Domain Name Wire. Last year at this time, 336 ti...
Discussion
NamesCon registrations top 600
Next month’s domain name conference in Las Vegas will be a big event. Registrations for next month’s NamesCon domain name conference have topped 600, conference founder Richard Lau informed Domain Name Wire. Last year at this time, 336 ti...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 2:18 pm
The Domains
PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings
According to a press release we received today Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate...
Discussion
PIR (.Org Registry) Offers New IDN Domains In Three Strings
According to a press release we received today Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain registry, today announced the general availability of three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate...
Discussion
December 23, 2014, 2:04 pm
